Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-05-27

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Friday, May ~, 1857.
Ir costs ten dollars to kiss girl In
Druid Hill Park, Baltimore-ifa police
man sees you. It's worth that. though,
to kiss some Of the Baltimore girls.
Ir is said that mustaches are going
out of style. and will no longer be worn
by the fashionable. We suppose this
thing has been started by some fellow
who is unable to raise that splendid
hirsute ornament.
WE notice by our exchanges that an
editor in a western town has recently
been presented with horse and buggy
as an evidence of appreciation Of his
paper. We don't know how far West
this thing occurred it must have
been pretty far.
The national drill at Washington this
week don't seem to be very great
show. Apparently it is very tame
affair, for the reports do not speak of
the slightest enthusiasm being mani
tested. There are quite large number
of military companies in camp, but
there is something lacking in the esprit
de corps.
OUR Republican contemporaries are
chuckling to themselves over the SEEM
ing dlssensions is the Democratic ranks
i'm this State. 1t is true we have had
our little differences, but when we look
at the way the Republican newspapers
are abusing each other we can't think
there is much harmony among them or
in their party.
WEnotice i'm II couple of our exchanges
editorial demands tina: the Democratic
State Executive Committee be recon-
structed. There is perhaps need of
some changes in tina: committee, but
they should be made with caution and
wisdom. Better let the vacancies be
untitled than to put in men who are
unfit for the places. Only true and
tried Democrats should be put on guard.
The administration is taking steps
now to withdraw from the railroads and
open up to settlers immense tracts of
good farming lands in the West. These
lands were given By Congress to the
railroads on certain conditions. The
railroads did not comply, and now the
President is taking the lands back and
giving them to settlers. 1t looks as If
this administration is taking CT re of the
people on all questions.
GREAT difficulty is being experienced
in New York in getting jury to try
Jacob Sharp, the bribe-giveI. Those
men who have intelligence enough to
form opinions, those who are enlight-
enej enough to read newspapers, and
those who are able to discern clearly
the right and the wrong, are disqualified
by law from acting as jurors in the
case. The jury system, as managed at
present, is a monumental. fraud.
A STATEMENT of the earnings of hun
dred railroads for the past month shows
an increase of about l6 per cent. in
comparison with the same month last
year. This shows conclusively that the
railroads are not suffering on account OF
the interstate commerce law. 1t also
shows that the Commissioners may with
propriety find out If the rates which
were so suddenly advanced cannot be
reduced to just and reasonable figures.
Mr.. LUCAS still persists in his inten-
ton to contest Senator Faulkner's claim
to the Senatorial chair. But if he thinks
he is goirg to bluff Senator Faulkner
he will find himself very much mis-.
taken, for that gentleman has the right
and title to the office, and is beside
backed by the administration and the
Democratic party of the State. We
suppose it is very hard for Mr.. Lucas to
give up, bu: he will have to drop sooner
or later.
The civil service law seems to be
loaded at both ends, and it is beginning
to shoot toward the Republican clerks
now. New rules are being made and
old ones newly construed which will
play havoc with the fellows who have
been enjoying fat places with little work
in the government departments, and
there is every likelihood that there will
be numerous vacancies i'm the near
future. There are plenty of Democrats
to fill them.